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Do they think its there and is stable? whats the mindset, do you think? >> that the white house is getting right now from republicans on the hill? >> yeah. >> i think -- i think right now theyre obviously having trouble. theyre not seeing a lot of republicans jumping to their defense on this one. very few republicans want to get out in front and say, you know, this is okay, this is overstated, dont make a big fuss out of this because they dont know what the next shoe to drop is. look how this sp...

Incoherently, the topic changed to the issue of russian adoptions, which was a very hot item under the obama administration, and at that point the meeting ended. and i think the very important thing is not just the statements from mr. trump jr. but the fact that after that meeting there was no other connection, no phone calls, no further meetings because this individual did not meet in good faith. donald trump jr. is not part of the administration and so this is a massive nothing burger. >> but ...

Basically a p.r. stunt, and i think hes actually kind of mad now that its turned out to be much harder than he thought it would be. >> ron, tell us what donald trump jr. should have done or anyone working in a campaign should have done in they received an e-mail saying the russians would like to help your campaign. >> yeah, they should have dialed 1-800-fbi. if you hear from a foreign government that a foreign government wants to help your political campaign, you should get federal law enforceme...

Agents conducting interviews. >> im tempted to say i thought it was a meeting about baby adoptions. that is to say another story has migrated again within 24 hours. >> exactly right. this is something where the white house every time they feel like they have a few good days largely they were pleasewood the the trip. they they thought he got things done at the g20 and immediately its an vanch, the same word over and over. russia, rather. he makes a good point. are we do believe that the president...

Trumps personal attorney who says, "the president was not aware of and did not attend the meeting." adding to this cloud of controversy you have donald trump jr. really shifting his story about why he had that meeting in the first place. first he said it was because he thought they were going to discuss russian adoptions. then just a day later he changed his story when he was confronted by reporters for "the new york times" and acknowledged that, in fact, he did take the meeting because he thoug...

Things later in the summer, that all of those facts are the kinds of things a prosecutor reviews in order to prove coordination. >> on the face of it just have a meeting with somebody who claims to be a russian official, who claims to have information from the kremlin that is damaging to your political opponent, on the face of it that meeting alone isnt necessarily illegal? >> right. if you knew nothing else about what was happening in this context, the -- >> its untoward. >> well, but we have a...

Discussed if any. the bottom line is don jr. did nothing wrong." and a statement from mark kral low, a spokesman for president trumps personal attorney, "the president was not aware of and did fot attend the meeting." that is where the focus is going to be today, craig, but the bottom line, a lot of difficult questions for president trump, who had at the time just effectively secured the republican nomination based on our records, we believe he was at trump tower at the time, doesnt mean he was ...

Anyone working in a campaign should have done in they received an e-mail saying the russians would like to help your campaign. >> yeah, they should have dialed 1-800-fbi. if you hear from a foreign government that a foreign government wants to help your political campaign, you should get federal law enforcement on the phone and turn it over. as ana marie alluded to earlier,ed idea he took this meeting because he believes it was about the russians helping and ended up being disappointed when it w...

Sanctions process for sanctioning russia and frank hi other countries on the issue of human rights violations of that magnitude. and so that is not a way to talk about adoptions. thats a way to talk about the death of someone within russian jail and that was a very, very serious thing to vladimir putin. that was a red flag for anyone who followed u.s./russian affairs and it was something that putin wanted desperately removed from russia, wanted a range of sanctions. but, you know, one of the thi...

This ted cruz amendment may be looked at, but this is not going to be something that can add the yes votes to the tally we have now. >> always keeping your eye on the tally, the numbers and the votes. a stunning revelation from donald trumps son. he had a meeting with a russian attorney who said she had information that could help the campaign and dirt on hillary clinton. lets talk with our cnn political commentators about it. former white house communications director and ben ferguson. ben, w...